Solon Law Quotations

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.

Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.

Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.

Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.